Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Two unfortunately timed product failures could cost Nintendo millions of dollars. The company said it would voluntarily replace 3.2 million straps attached to the controllers of its newWii game consoles, and it is recalling about 200,000 AC adapters for its DS and DS Lite handheld game machines The Wii strap failures are a global problem. Nintendo ...

Blogging has taken the Internet by storm over the past few years as part of the social networking phenomenon, but Gartner analysts predict that the number of community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007 Less than 2 percent of all Internet users are frequent content contributors, according to Gartner. Between 10 and 15 percent contribu...

One of theInternet's leading innovators is offering a helping hand to other innovators Google on Wednesday introduced a new Web site that facilitates searches for U.S. patents by keyword, patent number, inventor and filing data....

More than 1,200 people were arrested for alleged immigration violations earlier this week when federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Swift meatpacking plants. The workers were accused of using stolen Social Security numbers in order to get jobs Dubbed "Operation Wagon Train," the raid was the largest such crackdown on illeg...

IBM and Yahoo on Wednesday introduced new, free enterprise search software with Web search services powered by Yahoo. The idea is to make it easier for corporate searchers to find and act on information stored on networks and across the Web Dubbed "IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition," the software is an entry-level search product that Big Blue is using to ...

Microsoft on Tuesday opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server to 2,500 IT professionals Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology into existing telephony infrastructure. The software giant hopes to gain traction in this market with a busine...

HP has partnered with Cingular to develop a new notebook computer with built-in global mobile broadband capabilities The HP Compaq nc6400 Notebook PC with integrated Cingular Wireless UMTS/HSDPA (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System/High Speed Downlink Packet Access)-based technology aims to let business professionals connect to corporate net...

There may be a shortage of the latest and greatest video game consoles this holiday season, but there is certainly no lack of new games from which to choose Part 1 of this two-part series looks at five of the hottest new game titles: "Gears of War," "Guitar Hero II," "Resistance: Fall of Man," "Elite Beat Agents" and the controversial "Bully."

Dell on Monday introduced Blu-ray Disc technology into its product line, offering the next-generation optical disc format as an option on its high-endXPS M1710 consumer notebook computer For Dell, it's a move to offer customers PCs that can function as a single platform for digital entertainment throughout the home. For Blu-ray supporters, which in...

A new chip technology could encroach on flash memory and hard-disk drive market share, as a group of companies led by IBM explore phase-change memory Big Blue,Macronix andQimonda on Monday announced joint research results that give a major boost to this new type of computer memory, which they are touting as the successor to flash memory chips. Flas...

As the next generation of video game consoles duke it out in the marketplace, game publishers are anxious to see how their titles fare in the fray From war games to music games, there is no lack of variety to satisfy gaming enthusiasts of all ages this year. There are plenty of options for the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 2 and 3, and Microsoft X...

Two prominent U.S. Senators on Thursday joined forces with the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to launch a new nationwide television public service announcement (PSA) campaign. The goal is to encourage parents to use the video game ratings when buying games for their children Just in time for the holidays, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton...

In a settlement that could lead to new standards for corporate ethics, Hewlett-Packard on Thursday agreed to finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights As part of the US$14.5 million settlement, HP will also adopt corporate governance reforms. The settlement resolves allegations that the firm ...

Cisco on Wednesday announced it is on course with its US$1.1 billion investment in India -- and added it's expanding its commitment there. The company expects to triple its workforce in India over the next three to five years Cisco first established operations in India in 1995 and today employs over 2,000 people in the country at its Global Researc...

MySpace.com on Tuesday said it would partner with an online identity and background check firm to build technology that blocks convicted sex offenders from joining its community The leading online social networking community is working withSentinel Tech Holding to build Sentinel Safe, technology that will search existing state and federal databases...

AMD on Tuesday announced its transition from 90 nanometer (nm) to 65 nm process technology. The Athlon 64 X2 dual-core desktop processor is the first product to roll out under the new process AMD's announcement comes months after Intel launched its 65 nm initiatives and is another step toward ever smaller transistors (transistors are the building b...

In a breakthrough that paves the way for higher capacity notebook computers and digital music players, Toshiba announced Tuesday that its storage device division broke the 100 GB barrier for mobile hard disk drives (HDD) A new 1.8-inch drive -- model MK1011GAH -- is based on perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), a technology for data recording on...

Communications giantBT Group on Monday announced the commercial launch of BT Vision, its new Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service The company is spending about US$198 million to roll out the service with high hopes to attract up to 3 million users and post a profit by the end of 2010....

Online retailers are looking forward to a robust holiday shopping season this year, asPart 1 of this three-part series points out, and that anticipated success is likely to be due in no small part to the increased focus onsearch engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM), as detailed inPart 2 However, for all the hoopla over SEO an...

The U.S. government on Thursday issued a warning to American private financial services of a possible cyber attack by an Islamist militant group against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday The group, reportedly associated with al-Qaeda, is seeking to hack and destroy the databases of the U.S. financial sites, according to...